Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...full of care and precision in composition and in style. But in this respect they suffer from a fault which mars many a Monthly contribution. They are more careful than anything else. They are not surprising, original or absorbing in subject matter, nor yet interesting for any novelty of treatment. They read as if they had been turned out for the English department to begin with, and afterwards much revised with a view to publication. One is inclined to wonder why they were published, unless as models of painstaking composition. If this is the case three are rather many...
...line with Holworthy and behind Stoughton in such a way as to form, with Holden Chapel in the centre, a pendant to Harvard Hall, and to give a generally symmetrical arrangement to that portion of the Yard. Its position has been further emphasized by a Colonial treatment of red brick with light stone trimmings in keeping with the design of Harvard Hall and the other old brick buildings. The same height of cornice has been followed, and the feeling of the old work has been preserved as far as possible...
...been found necessary from an architectural point of view to reconcile the building to its position by a frank treatment of the triangular space in front. This has been made into a forecourt by means of a wall on the east running to the street, and by carrying along the front a fence of iron with brick posts and an ornamental gate-way in keeping with the Harvard gates. This fence, if continued on either side in the future, will serve to reconcile the building still further to its position. The court in front is designed as a small, quiet...
...parlor or meeting rooms oak panelled finish and deep window seats are called for, while the society rooms are to be finished in light paint to recall the old colonial buildings. This same treatment will be carried out in the Assembly Hall. Throughout the building the plaster walls are to be painted in plain harmonious color as a background for portraits and prints...
...care expended in formulating a plan intended to enable the judges to make unquestionable selections with greater facility, the number of candidates for the team were to fall below the standards of the past. If such proves to be the case, the advantages accruing from a more minute treatment of the question under the three steps of the new system will hardly justify its permanent adoption, for preliminaries should be so arranged as to attract not only the best but the most debaters to compete. We hope therefore that tonight will see many aspirants for the Princeton debate...